Rajeev Shukla Quotes
Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for.
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The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
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I don't have any regrets at all.
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I'm good at what I do and still improving as I learn from mentors, founders, partners, friends, family, strangers, my own investors, and the experience itself.
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Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.
